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Dave Spritz is a local weatherman in his home town of Chicago, where his career is going well while his personal life -- his relationship with his perfectionist writer father, his neurotic ex-wife, and his now-separated children -- is spiraling downward. Despite being both loathed and loved by the l …ocal masses, Dave is a guy who doesn't seem to have it all together, and in this film, he begins to feel it. An attractive job offer presents Dave with a major question: to pursue his career in New York City, or to remain at home with his family. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | black comedy |
| Themes: | celebritydysfunctional familyfuneraljealousy |
| Mood: | moving |
| Locations: | funeral in the rainchicago illinoiscemeterynew york city |
| Characters: | ex husband ex wife relationshipboyfather daughter relationshipfather son relationship |
| Period: | winter |
| Story: | woman using crutchesreference to harriet tubmanreference to buzz aldrinhit with a snowballthree legged racedepartment of motor vehiclesreference to neil younghearing characters thoughtsice skating rinkone breast exposedcalla lilytight pantssex with clothes onnikon cameracorndog …lymphomacouples therapywaiting in linepulitzer prizewater cooleroverweight childephebophiliaweather reportreference to thomas jeffersonleg castephebophileennuiweathermangrave side ceremonyincest overtonescamel toetv show in filmromantic rivalrycowgirl sex positionnewscastfailurerainingchild molestationarcherycrutchesinsecuritymidlife crisismelancholydivorceeexistentialismice skatingpedophilepower outageparadeheavy rainfalling down stairsterminal illnessloss of fatherumbrellatelevisionwoman on toptitle spoken by characterfemale frontal nuditybare chested malefemale nudity (See All) |
Warren Schmidt has led a safe, predictable life working in the insurance industry in Omaha, Nebr. for many years, yet now faces retirement. At the same time he is forced to take a hard look at his wife, his life and his relationship with his estranged daughter. An often hilarious series of events fo …llow as Schmidt embarks on an unpredictable RV journey to attend his daughter's wedding in Denver. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | black comedy |
| Themes: | dysfunctional familyfuneral |
| Locations: | cemetery |
| Characters: | father daughter relationship |
| Story: | midlife crisisdivorceeexistentialismfemale nudity |
TV weatherman Bill Harding is trying to get his tornado-hunter wife, Jo, to sign divorce papers so he can marry his girlfriend Melissa. But Mother Nature, in the form of a series of intense storms sweeping across Oklahoma, has other plans. Soon the three have joined the team of stormchasers as they …attempt to insert a revolutionary measuring device into the very heart of several extremely violent tornados. (Read More)
| Themes: | jealousy |
| Characters: | ex husband ex wife relationship |
| Story: | weather reportweathermanheavy rainloss of father |
After causing a loss of almost one billion dollars in his company, the shoe designer Drew Baylor decides to commit suicide. However, in the exact moment of his act of despair, he receives a phone call from his sister telling him that his beloved father had just died in Elizabethtown, and he should b …ring him back since his mother had problem with the relatives of his father. He travels in an empty red eye flight and meets the attendant Claire Colburn, who changes his view and perspective of life. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | black comedy |
| Themes: | dysfunctional familyfuneral |
| Locations: | cemetery |
| Characters: | boyfather son relationship |
| Story: | failureloss of fatherumbrellatitle spoken by character |
Michael Newman (Sandler) is a hard working family man, who must please his boss (Hasselhoff), in order to get promoted. Problem is he gets less time with his family, and wishes for a remote in which he can control his life. This soon comes true for Newman, when he meets Morty (Walken), a crazy sales … clerk, who has the ultimate remote. A remote in which he can do anything, including muting, skipping and dubbing his life. He finds this to be the opportunity in which he can not only skip every argument, but also skip to his promotion. He sees this as a good idea, until the remote goes horribly wrong. (Read More)
| Themes: | dysfunctional familyjealousy |
| Locations: | cemeterynew york city |
| Characters: | ex husband ex wife relationshipboyfather daughter relationshipfather son relationship |
| Story: | romantic rivalrydivorceeloss of fathertitle spoken by character |
When the aging head of a famous crime family decides to transfer his position to one of his subalterns, a series of unfortunate events start happening to the family, and a war begins between all the well-known families leading to insolence, deportation, murder and revenge, and ends with the favorabl …e successor being finally chosen. (Read More)
| Themes: | dysfunctional familyfuneral |
| Locations: | cemeterynew york city |
| Characters: | father daughter relationshipfather son relationship |
| Story: | melancholyfalling down stairsloss of fathertitle spoken by characterfemale nudity |
Anna is a young widow who is finally getting on with her life after the death of her husband, Sean. Now engaged to be married, Anna meets a ten-year-old boy who tells her he is Sean reincarnated. Though his story is both unsettling and absurd, Anna can't get the boy out of her mind. And much to the …concern of her fiance, her increased contact with him leads her to question the choices she has made in her life. (Read More)
| Themes: | funeraljealousy |
| Locations: | cemeterynew york city |
| Characters: | boyfather son relationship |
| Story: | child molestationice skatingfemale nudity |
The daughter of a brilliant but mentally disturbed mathematician (recently deceased) tries to come to grips with her possible inheritance: his insanity. Complicating matters are one of her father's ex-students who wants to search through his papers and her estranged sister who shows up to help settl …e his affairs. (Read More)
| Themes: | funeral |
| Locations: | chicago illinoisnew york city |
| Characters: | father daughter relationship |
| Story: | melancholyloss of fatherumbrellatitle spoken by character |
Evan Treborn grows up in a small town with his single, working mother and his friends. He suffers from memory blackouts where he suddenly finds himself somewhere else, confused. Evan's friends and mother hardly believe him, thinking he makes it up just to get out of trouble. As Evan grows up he has …fewer of these blackouts until he seems to have recovered. Since the age of seven he has written a diary of his blackout moments so he can remember what happens. One day at college he starts to read one of his old diaries, and suddenly a flashback hits him like a brick! (Read More)
| Themes: | funeraljealousy |
| Mood: | moving |
| Locations: | cemetery |
| Characters: | boyfather daughter relationshipfather son relationship |
| Story: | grave side ceremonypedophiletelevisionfemale frontal nuditybare chested malefemale nudity |
A group of thieves steal a rare gem, but in the process, two of the men double cross the leader of the thieving group, Patrick, and take off with the precious stone. Ten years later, prominent psychiatrist Nathan Conrad is invited to examine a disturbed young woman named Elisabeth. Patrick immediate …ly kidnaps Nathan's daughter, forcing Nathan to attempt to get Elisabeth to reveal a secret number which will ultimately lead Patrick to the whereabouts of the precious gem that has eluded him. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | black comedy |
| Locations: | cemeterynew york city |
| Characters: | father daughter relationship |
| Story: | leg castcrutchesparadeheavy rainloss of fathertitle spoken by character |
Dr. Joe Darrow is a recently widowed doctor. He is grieving due to the death of his pregnant wife in a Red Cross mission in Venezuela. Although being atheist, he began to believe that his dead wife wants to communicate with him, through her young patients in the Pediatrics of a Chicago hospital.
| Subgenre: | black comedy |
| Themes: | funeral |
| Locations: | chicago illinois |
| Characters: | boyfather daughter relationshipfather son relationship |
| Story: | power outageheavy raintitle spoken by characterbare chested male |
A mother and her two sons move to a small coast town in California. The town is plagued by bikers and some mysterious deaths. The younger boy makes friends with two other boys who claim to be vampire hunters while the older boy is drawn into the gang of bikers by a beautiful girl. The older boy star …ts sleeping days and staying out all night while the younger boy starts getting into trouble because of his friends' obsession. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | black comedy |
| Themes: | dysfunctional family |
| Mood: | moving |
| Characters: | boyfather daughter relationship |
| Story: | divorceefalling down stairsbare chested male |
Tom Reagan (played by Gabriel Byrne) is the right-hand man, and chief adviser, to a mob boss, Leo (Albert Finney). Trouble is brewing between Leo and another mob boss, Johnny Caspar (Jon Polito), over the activities of a bookie, Bernie Bernbaum (John Turturro) and Leo and Tom are at odds on how to d …eal with it. Meanwhile, Tom is in a secret relationship with Leo's girlfriend, Verna (Marcia Gay Harden), who happens to be the sister of Bernie. In trying to resolve the issue, Tom is cast out from Leo's camp and ultimately finds himself stuck in the middle between several deadly, unforgiving parties. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | black comedy |
| Themes: | funeraljealousy |
| Locations: | cemetery |
| Characters: | father son relationship |
| Story: | overweight childfalling down stairstitle spoken by character |
Hank Palmer is a successful defense attorney in Chicago, who is getting a divorce. When His brother calls with the news that their mother has died, Hank returns to his childhood home to attend the funeral. Despite the brittle bond between Hank and the Judge, Hank must come to his father's aid and de …fend him in court. Here, Hank discovers the truth behind the case, which binds together the dysfunctional family and reveals the struggles and secrecy of the family. (Read More)
| Themes: | dysfunctional familyfuneral |
| Locations: | chicago illinoiscemetery |
| Characters: | father daughter relationshipfather son relationship |
| Story: | terminal illnessumbrellabare chested male |
When Eastern European criminals Oleg and Emil come to New York City to pick up their share of a heist score, Oleg steals a video camera and starts filming their activities, both legal and illegal. When they learn how the American media circus can make a remorseless killer look like the victim and ma …ke them rich, they target media-savvy NYPD Homicide Detective Eddie Flemming and media-naive FDNY Fire Marshal Jordy Warsaw, the cops investigating their murder and torching of their former criminal partner, filming everything to sell to the local tabloid TV show "Top Story." (Read More)
| Themes: | celebrityfuneraljealousy |
| Locations: | cemeterynew york city |
| Characters: | boy |
| Story: | waiting in linenewscasttitle spoken by characterbare chested malefemale nudity |
In Manhattan, the British limousine driver Alfie is surrounded by beautiful women, most of them clients, and he lives as a Don Juan, having one night stands with all of them and without any sort of commitment. His girl-friend and single-mother Julie is quite upset with the situation and his best fri …ends are his colleague Marlon and his girl-friend Lonette. Alfie has a brief affair with Lonette, and the consequences of his act forces Alfie to reflect and wonder about his life style. (Read More)
| Themes: | funeral |
| Locations: | cemeterynew york city |
| Period: | winter |
| Story: | calla lilyheavy rainwoman on topfemale frontal nudityfemale nudity |
Aurora and Emma are mother and daughter who march to different drummers. Beginning with Emma's marriage, Aurora shows how difficult and loving she can be. The movie covers several years of their lives as each finds different reasons to go on living and find joy. Aurora's interludes with Garrett Bree …dlove, retired astronaut and next door neighbor are quite striking. In the end, different people show their love in very different ways. (Read More)
| Themes: | dysfunctional familyjealousy |
| Mood: | moving |
| Locations: | new york city |
| Story: | terminal illnessloss of father |
Soon after moving in, Beth, a brainy, beautiful writer damaged from a past relationship encounters Adam, the handsome, but odd, fellow in the downstairs apartment whose awkwardness is perplexing. Beth and Adam's ultimate connection leads to a tricky relationship that exemplifies something universal: … truly reaching another person means bravely stretching into uncomfortable territory and the resulting shake-up can be liberating. (Read More)
| Themes: | funeraljealousy |
| Mood: | moving |
| Locations: | cemeterynew york city |
| Characters: | father daughter relationship |
| Story: | reference to thomas jeffersontitle spoken by character |
Brian Lackey is determined to discover what happened during an amnesia blackout when he was eight years old, and then later woke with a bloody nose. He believes he was abducted by aliens, and N. McCormick, a fellow player on Brian's childhood baseball team, may be the key as to exactly what happened … that night. As Brian searches for the truth and tries to track him down, Neil McCormick takes up hustling and moves to New York, in attempts to forget childhood memories that haunt him. Together, the two of them uncover the terrible truth of the scars they share. (Read More)
| Themes: | dysfunctional family |
| Locations: | new york city |
| Characters: | boyfather son relationship |
| Story: | ephebophiletv show in filmchild molestationcrutchespedophileheavy rain |
Three grown prodigies, all with a unique genius of some kind, and their mother are staying at the family household. Their father, Royal had left them long ago, and comes back to make things right with his family.
| Themes: | dysfunctional familyfuneral |
| Locations: | cemeterynew york city |
| Characters: | father daughter relationshipfather son relationship |
| Story: | falling down stairsterminal illness |
Fired in disgrace, kids show host Randolph Smiley finds himself out on the street, while his replacement Sheldon Mopes, finds himself on the fast track to success with a new hit show as the proud purple rhino Smoochy. But things take a turn for the worst when Sheldon finds out that some of the peopl …e that he works with, and some he doesn't know he's working for, are all in it for the money. Meanwhile, Randolph is slowly turning insane with his only thoughts focusing on killing Smoochy and getting back to his life of luxury. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | black comedy |
| Themes: | funeral |
| Locations: | new york city |
| Characters: | father son relationship |
| Story: | ice skatingfalling down stairstelevisionwoman on toptitle spoken by character |
Medical students begin to explore the realm of near death experiences, hoping for insights. Each has their heart stopped and is revived. They begin having flashes of walking nightmares from their childhood, reflecting sins they committed or had committed against them. The experiences continue to int …ensify, and they begin to be physically beaten by their visions as they try and go deeper into the death experience to find a cure. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | black comedy |
| Locations: | chicago illinoiscemetery |
| Characters: | boyfather daughter relationship |
| Story: | power outageheavy rainloss of fathertitle spoken by characterbare chested male |
A woman breaks up with her boyfriend, he thinks it's because he's fat. A man is unable to tell her next door neighbor he finds her sexually attractive. An old couple wants to split up, but they don't want to get a divorce. A therapist masturbates to teen magazines. An 11 year old kid is insecure abo …ut the fact that he hasn't cum yet. Office workers try to recall the face of a coworker who recently died. A woman is sure she has everything she could ever want. The lives of these individuals intertwine as they go about their lives in their own unique ways, engaging in acts society as a whole might find disturbing in a desperate search for human connection. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | black comedy |
| Themes: | dysfunctional family |
| Characters: | boyfather daughter relationshipfather son relationship |
| Story: | child molestationpedophiletitle spoken by character |
After his death sometime in his forty-third year, suburbanite Lester Burnham tells of the last few weeks of his life, during which he had no idea of his imminent passing. He is a husband to real estate agent Carolyn Burnham and father to high school student Janie Burnham. Although Lester and Carolyn … once loved each other, they now merely tolerate each other. Typical wallflower Janie too hates both her parents, the three who suffer individually in silence in their home life. Janie tries to steer clear of both her parents. Carolyn, relatively new to the real estate business, wants to create the persona of success to further her career, she aspiring to the professional life of Buddy Kane, the king of the real estate business in their neighborhood. Lester merely walks mindlessly through life, including at his job in advertising. His company is downsizing, and he, like all the other employees, has to justify his position to the newly hired efficiency expert to keep his job. Things change for Lester when he falls in love at first sight with Janie's more experienced classmate, Angela Hays. Both Janie and Angela can see Lester's sexual infatuation with Angela, who courts such attention from any man as a sign that she is model material, she having once appeared in Seventeen and it a career to which she aspires. Lester's infatuation with Angela gives him a reenergized view on life, where he openly doesn't care anymore what anyone thinks about what he does, anyone except Angela. This in… (Read More)
| Subgenre: | black comedy |
| Themes: | dysfunctional family |
| Mood: | moving |
| Characters: | father daughter relationshipfather son relationship |
| Story: | insecuritymidlife crisisexistentialismheavy raintelevisionfemale frontal nuditybare chested malefemale nudity |
In this belated sequel to 'The Decline of the American Empire', 50-something Montreal college professor, Remy, learns that he is dying of liver cancer. He decides to make amends meet to his friends and family before he dies. He first tries to made peace with his ex-wife Louise, who asks their estran …ged son Sebastian, a successful businessman living in London, to come home. Sebastian makes the impossible happen, using his contacts and disrupting the entire Canadian system in every way possible to help his father fight his terminal illness to the bitter end, while he also tries to reunite his former friends, Pierre, Alain, Dominique, Diane, and Claude to see their old friend before he passes on. (Read More)
| Characters: | ex husband ex wife relationshipfather daughter relationshipfather son relationship |
| Story: | pulitzer prizereference to thomas jeffersonfailuredivorceeterminal illness |
During childhood, Fred Claus suffered his younger brother Nick's saintliness. Jump ahead: Fred is a fast-talking, genial but self-centered guy in Chicago looking for $50,000 to open an off-track-betting shop. When one scam goes awry, he calls Nick at the North Pole for a loan: Nick will give him the … money only if Fred comes up to help a few days with the Christmas rush. After his girlfriend dumps him, Fred heads north. Santa's facing an audit from an efficiency expert, and it's not pleasant. Fred's job is to review charts and determine who's naughty and who's nice. Is there any fraternal feeling left, can either learn from the other, and what about Santa getting fired? (Read More)
| Subgenre: | black comedy |
| Themes: | dysfunctional familyjealousy |
| Locations: | chicago illinois |
| Characters: | father son relationship |
| Story: | hit with a snowballpower outage |
The film revolves around Park Hee-bong, a man in his late 60s. He runs a small snack bar on the banks of the Han River and lives with his two sons, one daughter, and one granddaughter. The Parks seem to lead a quite ordinary and peaceful life, but maybe they are a bit poorer than the average Seoulit …e. Hee-bong's elder son Gang-du is an immature and incompetent man in his 40s, whose wife left home long ago. Nam-il is the youngest son, an unemployed grumbler, and daughter Nam-joo is an archery medalist and member of the national team. One day, an unidentified monster suddenly appears from the depths of the Han River and spreads panic and death, and Gang-du's daughter Hyun-seo is carried off by the monster and disappears. All of the family members are in a great agony because they lost someone very dear to them. But when they find out she is still alive, they resolve to save her. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | black comedy |
| Themes: | dysfunctional familyfuneral |
| Characters: | father daughter relationshipfather son relationship |
| Story: | archerypower outageheavy raintitle spoken by character |
Dahlia Williams and her daughter Cecelia move into a rundown apartment on New York's Roosevelt Island. She is currently in the midst of divorce proceedings and the apartment, though near an excellent school for her daughter, is all she can afford. From the time she arrives, there are mysterious occu …rrences and there is a constant drip from the ceiling in the only bedroom. There are also noises coming from the apartment directly above hers, though it would appear to be vacant. Is the apartment haunted or is there a simpler explanation? (Read More)
| Themes: | funeral |
| Mood: | moving |
| Locations: | new york city |
| Story: | divorceeheavy rainumbrella |
A weather man is reluctantly sent to cover a story about a weather forecasting "rat" (as he calls it). This is his fourth year on the story, and he makes no effort to hide his frustration. On awaking the 'following' day he discovers that it's Groundhog Day again, and again, and again. First he uses …this to his advantage, then comes the realisation that he is doomed to spend the rest of eternity in the same place, seeing the same people do the same thing EVERY day. (Read More)
| Period: | winter |
| Story: | weather reportweathermannewscastexistentialismtelevisiontitle spoken by character |
Oskar, a bullied 12-year old, dreams of revenge. He falls in love with Eli, a peculiar girl. She can't stand the sun or food and to come into a room she needs to be invited. Eli gives Oskar the strength to hit back but when he realizes that Eli needs to drink other people's blood to live he's faced …with a choice. How much can love forgive? Set in the Stockholm suburb of Blackeberg in 1982. (Read More)
| Characters: | ex husband ex wife relationshipboyfather son relationship |
| Period: | winter |
| Story: | weather reportice skatingfalling down stairsfemale frontal nuditybare chested malefemale nudity |
While his latest movie _Being John Malkovich (1999)_ (qv) is in production, screenwriter 'Charlie Kaufman' (qv) is hired by Valerie Thomas to adapt 'Susan Orlean' (qv)'s non-fiction book "The Orchid Thief" for the screen. Thomas bought the movie rights before Orlean wrote the book, when it was only …an article in The New Yorker. The book details the story of rare orchid hunter John Laroche, whose passion for orchids and horticulture made Orlean discover passion and beauty for the first time in her life. Charlie wants to be faithful to the book in his adaptation, but despite Laroche himself being an interesting character in his own right, Charlie is having difficulty finding enough material in Laroche to fill a movie, while equally not having enough to say cinematically about the beauty of orchids. At the same time, Charlie is going through other issues in his life. His insecurity as a person doesn't allow him to act upon his feelings for Amelia Kavan, who is interested in him as a man. And Charlie's twin brother, pretentious Donald, has moved into his house with a goal of also becoming a screenwriter. Despite not admiring Donald as a screenwriter, Charlie asks for his advice. Together, they feel that there is some interesting subtext in the book on which Orlean herself can only elaborate, if only Charlie has the nerve to talk to her. If she can't or won't elaborate, they may have to find out the meaning of that subtext on their own. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | black comedy |
| Locations: | new york city |
| Story: | hearing characters thoughtsinsecuritymelancholytitle spoken by characterfemale frontal nudityfemale nudity |
The teenager and skateboarder Alex is interviewed by Detective Richard Lu that is investigating the death of a security guard in the rail yards severed by a train who was apparently hit by a skate board. While dealing with the separation process of his parents and the sexual heat of his virgin girlf …riend Jennifer, Alex writes his last experiences in Paranoid Park with his new acquaintances and how the guard was killed, trying to relieve his feeling of guilty from his conscience. (Read More)
| Characters: | boyfather son relationship |
| Story: | corndognewscastice skatingumbrellatitle spoken by character |
Andrew Largeman is a semi-successful television actor who plays a intellectually disabled quarterback. His somewhat controlling and psychiatrist father has led Andrew ("Large") to believe that his mother's wheelchair bound life was his fault. Andrew decides to lay off the drugs that his father and h …is doctor made him believe that he needed, and began to see life for what it is. He began to feel the pain he had longed for, and began to have a genuine relationship with a girl who had some problems of her own. (Read More)
| Themes: | dysfunctional familyfuneral |
| Locations: | cemetery |
| Characters: | father son relationship |
| Story: | existentialismice skatingheavy raintelevisionfemale nudity |
In this comedy, Lars Lindstrom is an awkwardly shy young man in a small northern town who finally brings home the girl of his dreams to his brother and sister-in-law's home. The only problem is that she's not real - she's a sex doll Lars ordered off the Internet. But sex is not what Lars has in mind …, but rather a deep, meaningful relationship. His sister-in-law is worried for him, his brother thinks he's nuts, but eventually the entire town goes along with his delusion in support of this sweet natured boy that they've always loved. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | black comedy |
| Themes: | funeraljealousy |
| Locations: | cemetery |
| Characters: | boyfather son relationship |
| Period: | winter |
One year after outwitting the FBI and winning the public's adulation with their Robin Hood-style magic spectacles, The Four Horsemen resurface for a comeback performance in hopes of exposing the unethical practices of a tech magnate. The man behind their vanishing act is none other than Walter Mabry …, a tech prodigy who threatens the Horsemen into pulling off their most impossible heist yet. Their only hope is to perform one last unprecedented stunt to clear their names and reveal the mastermind behind it all. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | black comedy |
| Locations: | new york city |
| Characters: | father son relationship |
| Story: | power outageheavy rainfalling down stairsloss of fatherumbrella |
Sandy, upon discovering her husband's infidelity while watching her son's birthday video, leaves the suburbs and moves into the city. She gets an apartment that's above a coffee house where she befriends one of the workers, Aram, a guy whose wife only married him so she could get a green card. Aram' …s family thinks he's wasting his life and education by working in the coffee house. Soon after moving into the apartment, Sandy hires Aram to be her nanny while she takes on work for the first time since her children were born. It isn't long when Aram and Sandy find they get along wonderfully and start to date. But the question is: is their relationship real or is it, in fact, just a rebound for both of them? (Read More)
| Mood: | moving |
| Locations: | new york city |
| Characters: | ex husband ex wife relationshipfather son relationship |
| Period: | winter |
| Story: | divorcee |
The film follows the fortunes of Charles and his friends as they wonder if they will ever find true love and marry. Charles thinks he's found "Miss Right" in Carrie, an American. This British subtle comedy revolves around Charlie, his friends and the four weddings and one funeral which they attend.
| Subgenre: | black comedy |
| Themes: | funeral |
| Story: | heavy rainbare chested male |
Death stalks the dreams of several young adults to claim its revenge on the killing of Freddy Kruger. Chased and chastised by this finger-bladed demon, it is the awakening of old memories and the denials of a past of retribution that spurns this hellish vision of a dreamlike state and turns death in …to a nightmare reality. (Read More)
| Themes: | funeral |
| Locations: | cemetery |
| Characters: | father son relationship |
| Story: | grave side ceremonychild molestationpedophilebare chested male |
Recently divorced Meg Altman and her daughter Sarah have bought a new home in New York. On their tour around the mansion, they come across the panic room. A room so secure, that no one can get in. When three burglars break in, Meg makes a move to the panic room. But all her troubles don't stop there …. The criminals know where she is, and what they require the most in the house is in that very room. (Read More)
| Locations: | new york city |
| Characters: | ex husband ex wife relationshipfather daughter relationship |
| Story: | divorceepower outageheavy rainfalling down stairstitle spoken by character |
A 34 year old single woman, Nancy, hung-over again, exhausted by the endless fruitless set ups by her friends, traveling up to London to toast another 10 years of her parent's successful happy magical marriage runs in with a 40 year old divorcee, Jack, who mistakes her for his 24 year old blind date …. Nancy, deciding to go with it, happens to hop on the most chaotic yet hilarious journey of her life which neither of them will ever forget. There is drinking, truths, an old stalker class mate with a long standing crush, lost divorce papers, lost hopes, competitive indoor sports and yeah Jack finding out the truth that Nancy isn't his blind date. 'Man Up' a romantic comedy about taking chances, finding about being yourself, making decisions and rolling with the consequences. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | black comedy |
| Characters: | ex husband ex wife relationshipfather daughter relationship |
| Story: | tight pantsinsecuritydivorcee |
Suzanne Stone (Maretto) knows exactly what she wants. She wants to be a television newscaster and she is willing to do anything to get what she wants. What she lacks in intelligence, she makes up for in cold determination and diabolical wiles. As she pursues her goal with relentless focus, she is fo …rced to destroy anything and anyone that may stand in her way, regardless of the ultimate cost or means necessary. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | black comedy |
| Period: | winter |
| Story: | ice skatingtelevision |
This story opens in 1938 in Rome, where Marcello has just taken a job working for Mussollini and is courting a beautiful young woman who will make him even more of a conformist. Marcello is going to Paris on his honeymoon and his bosses have an assignment for him there. Look up an old professor who …fled Italy when the fascists came into power. At the border of Italy and France, where Marcello and his bride have to change trains, his bosses give him a gun with a silencer. In a flashback to 1917, we learn why sex and violence are linked in Marcello's mind. (Read More)
| Characters: | boy |
| Period: | winter |
| Story: | one breast exposedchild molestationpedophilefemale frontal nudityfemale nudity |
With the dissolution of her marriage and the death of her mother, Cheryl Strayed has lost all hope. After years of reckless, destructive behavior, she makes a rash decision. With absolutely no experience, driven only by sheer determination, Cheryl hikes more than a thousand miles of the Pacific Cres …t Trail, alone. Wild powerfully captures the terrors and pleasures of one young woman forging ahead against all odds on a journey that maddens, strengthen, and ultimately heals her. (Read More)
| Characters: | ex husband ex wife relationship |
| Period: | winter |
| Story: | sex with clothes ondivorceeterminal illnesstitle spoken by characterfemale frontal nuditybare chested malefemale nudity |
Jerry works in his father-in-law's car dealership and has gotten himself in financial problems. He tries various schemes to come up with money needed for a reason that is never really explained. It has to be assumed that his huge embezzlement of money from the dealership is about to be discovered by … father-in-law. When all else falls through, plans he set in motion earlier for two men to kidnap his wife for ransom to be paid by her wealthy father (who doesn't seem to have the time of day for son-in-law). From the moment of the kidnapping, things go wrong and what was supposed to be a non-violent affair turns bloody with more blood added by the minute. Jerry is upset at the bloodshed, which turns loose a pregnant sheriff from Brainerd, MN who is tenacious in attempting to solve the three murders in her jurisdiction. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | black comedy |
| Themes: | dysfunctional family |
| Characters: | father daughter relationshipfather son relationship |
| Period: | winter |
| Story: | falling down stairstelevisionwoman on toptitle spoken by characterbare chested malefemale nudity |
Ineffectual, 'has-been' film-maker (Dennis Quaid) swindles his way into an interview with a film executive (Greg Kinnear) in order to pitch an outrageous and controversial comedy manuscript. After pitching the first of his thirteen offbeat fables, the dejected artist forces the rest of his disjointe …d allegory on the executive at gunpoint. He tells stories of a woman on a blind date with a man who has testicles growing from his neck, in another a smitten woman offers her neck to her boyfriend to 'poop' on -as a sign of commitment and love. In yet another two parents take home-schooling to a whole new level of indecency, striving to give their isolated teenage son all the 'regular' torment and humiliation of puberty by bullying, peer-pressuring and even seducing him themselves. An off-beat, elephant-in-the-room type film. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | black comedy |
| Themes: | dysfunctional family |
| Characters: | boyfather son relationship |
| Story: | failureinsecuritytelevisiontitle spoken by characterfemale frontal nudityfemale nudity |
Robert Dupea has given up his promising career as a concert pianist and is now working in oil fields. He lives together with Rayette, who's a waitress in a diner. When Robert hears from his sister that his father isn't well, he drives up to Washington to see him, taking Rayette with him. There he ge …ts confronted with his rich, cultured family that he had left behind. (Read More)
| Themes: | dysfunctional family |
| Characters: | father son relationship |
| Story: | failuremelancholyexistentialismfemale nudity |
Edith Cushing's mother died when she was young but watches over her. Brought up in the Victorian Era she strives to be more than just a woman of marriageable age. She becomes enamored with Thomas Sharpe, a mysterious stranger. After a series of meetings and incidents she marries Thomas and comes to …live with him and his sister, Lady Lucille Sharpe, far away from everything she has known. The naive girl soon comes to realize not everything is as it appears as ghosts of the past quite literally come out of the woodwork. This movie is more about mystery and suspense than gore. (Read More)
| Themes: | funeral |
| Locations: | funeral in the rain |
| Characters: | father daughter relationship |
| Period: | winter |
| Story: | cowgirl sex positionumbrellatitle spoken by character |
Needing extra cash, two brothers conspire to pull off the perfect, victimless crime. No guns, no violence, no problem. But when an accomplice ignores the rules and crosses the line, his actions trigger a series of events in which no one is left unscathed.
| Themes: | dysfunctional familyfuneral |
| Locations: | cemeterynew york city |
| Characters: | father daughter relationshipfather son relationship |
| Story: | department of motor vehiclesfemale frontal nuditybare chested malefemale nudity |
Under the watchful eye of his mentor Captain Mike Kennedy, probationary firefighter Jack Morrison matures into a seasoned veteran at a Baltimore fire station. Jack has reached a crossroads, however, as the sacrifices he's made have put him in harm's way innumerable times and significantly impacted h …is relationship with his wife and kids. Responding to the worst blaze in his career, he becomes trapped inside a 20-story building. And as he reflects on his life, now Deputy Chief Kennedy frantically coordinates the effort to save him. (Read More)
| Themes: | funeral |
| Locations: | cemetery |
| Characters: | boyfather daughter relationshipfather son relationship |
| Story: | paradeloss of fathertitle spoken by character |
Forty-two year old Isaac Davis has a romanticized view of his hometown, New York City, most specifically Manhattan, as channeled through the lead character in the first book he is writing, despite his own Manhattan-based life being more of a tragicomedy. He has just quit his job as a hack writer for … a bad television comedy, he, beyond the ten second rush of endorphins during the actual act of quitting, now regretting the decision, especially as he isn't sure he can live off his book writing career. He is paying two alimonies, his second ex-wife, Jill Davis, a lesbian, who is writing her own tell-all book of their acrimonious split. The one somewhat positive aspect of his life is that he is dating a young woman named Tracy, although she is only seventeen and still in high school. Largely because of their differences a big part of which is due to their ages, he does not see a long term future with her. His life has the potential to be even more tragicomical when he meets journalist Mary Wilkie, the mistress of his best friend, college professor Yale Pollack. Although Isaac's first impression of Mary is that she is a pretentious intellectual, he falls for her. They do become friends with the potential of becoming more than just friends as she knows that being the "other woman" in Yale's life is not a long term role that she wants. An Isaac/Mary coupling may complicate matters even more with Yale being mutually in their lives. Regardless, Isaac may be able to rationalize events a… (Read More)
| Locations: | new york city |
| Characters: | ex husband ex wife relationshipboyfather son relationship |
| Story: | tv show in filmtelevisiontitle spoken by character |
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